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have seriously considered quitting my job to start a specialty mail-order fern nursery called Best Fronds
The Franzia box wine customer loyalty program is called “Franz with Benefits” congratulations to all involved, very nice work
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
have seriously considered quitting my job to start a specialty mail-order fern nursery called Best Fronds
Weird bit of trivia I came across this morning—apparently after Boston’s Little Jack Horner Joke Shop went out of business in the 90s its inventory and sign were purchased by a propane and welding supply company who still sell fake dog poop etc. alongside their more conventional products.
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Weird bit of trivia I came across this morning—apparently after Boston’s Little Jack Horner Joke Shop went out of business in the 90s its inventory and sign were purchased by a propane and welding supply company who still sell fake dog poop etc. alongside their more conventional products.
a great question to ask yourself when reading nonfiction is: “does it feel like the author is afraid of being wrong.” if you can’t sense even a tiny bit of that fear you can probably put the book down.
There will be a strong market for books offering “insights” that sound unbelievably brilliant as long as you’ve never thought about the question before and we never think about it again again.
They’re basically scripts for things you can say at a cocktail party to try to sound smart.
They’re basically scripts for things you can say at a cocktail party to try to sound smart.
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
a great question to ask yourself when reading nonfiction is: “does it feel like the author is afraid of being wrong.” if you can’t sense even a tiny bit of that fear you can probably put the book down.
pedantic spoilsport voice: increases in ridership count are probably mostly due to route shift of existing cyclists not mode shift.
The latest evaluation of bike lane projects in Boston continues to show that if you build bike infrastructure, people will use it.
Full report: www.boston.gov/sites/defaul...
Full report: www.boston.gov/sites/defaul...
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
pedantic spoilsport voice: increases in ridership count are probably mostly due to route shift of existing cyclists not mode shift.
i never understood shakespeare truthers. shakespeare is the guy who wrote all those plays. someone else wrote them? guess what, that guy’s shakespeare now
November 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
i never understood shakespeare truthers. shakespeare is the guy who wrote all those plays. someone else wrote them? guess what, that guy’s shakespeare now
Ive got a little bit of a trouble with tribbles scenario brewing with dahlia cuttings this winter.
November 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Ive got a little bit of a trouble with tribbles scenario brewing with dahlia cuttings this winter.
is zohran mamdani america’s most high profile Nice Boy?
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
is zohran mamdani america’s most high profile Nice Boy?
After reading this I checked out r/grok and r/grokAI assuming there would be some elon stans having funny meltdowns, only to learn those communities are just laser-focused on generating AI porn.
November 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
After reading this I checked out r/grok and r/grokAI assuming there would be some elon stans having funny meltdowns, only to learn those communities are just laser-focused on generating AI porn.
Now that public opinion on him has turned I finally feel safe to admit: I clogged the toilet in Larry Summers’ guest bathroom in May of 2007 while he was out of town
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Now that public opinion on him has turned I finally feel safe to admit: I clogged the toilet in Larry Summers’ guest bathroom in May of 2007 while he was out of town
I always find this claim interesting because in 1900 about 2/3 of new yorkers lived in tenement buildings where a 325-450 sf apartment would routinely house 8-10 people
The free market kept manhattan affordable in the late 1800s and early 1900s
A fun thing about YIMBY dorks is that they are incapable of scrutinizing the hyper capitalist economic model that treats housing as a service that can only be solved via free market principles rather than a human right that may be at odds with endless profit and rent seeking
November 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I always find this claim interesting because in 1900 about 2/3 of new yorkers lived in tenement buildings where a 325-450 sf apartment would routinely house 8-10 people
So my read is theres an intra party fight looming either because of a fear of Epstein revelations or because trump is too senile to act as an effective whip? And Fuentes is becoming the sort of dividing line, with Vance as the figurehead for the groyper wing? Does this sound right?
I can no longer follow the plot of this show. I suspect the writers and actors can’t either. I don’t think they have a show runner.
November 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
So my read is theres an intra party fight looming either because of a fear of Epstein revelations or because trump is too senile to act as an effective whip? And Fuentes is becoming the sort of dividing line, with Vance as the figurehead for the groyper wing? Does this sound right?
not to give a stranger marriage advice but my man should probably have let those secrets regrow until new leaves started to emerge and then hired a licensed invasive species manager to apply a 1% imazapyr foliar spray at 1-2 year intervals
I see we’re having an unnecessarily flowery writing competition in public
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
not to give a stranger marriage advice but my man should probably have let those secrets regrow until new leaves started to emerge and then hired a licensed invasive species manager to apply a 1% imazapyr foliar spray at 1-2 year intervals
oh no not larry summers
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
oh no not larry summers
dam discourse is so focused on massive hydroelectric dams in western states and people really underappreciate how many dams there are across the New England and the northeast
#30DayMapChallenge
Day 13 10 minute map
I did briefly think about mapping 10 minutes, (10') but this was just much quicker 😀
Also, SO MANY DAMS! I knew there were a lot but goodness.
Day 13 10 minute map
I did briefly think about mapping 10 minutes, (10') but this was just much quicker 😀
Also, SO MANY DAMS! I knew there were a lot but goodness.
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
dam discourse is so focused on massive hydroelectric dams in western states and people really underappreciate how many dams there are across the New England and the northeast
Here’s the thing about the democrats: pretty much every choice they make is aimed at securing the reelection of Greebus Durmutt (D-NY), the 102 year-old congressman with terminal ass cancer.
It’s gonna be funny when we learn that democrats slow rolled the release of the Epstein files because they thought it might hurt the reelection chances of Greebus Durmutt (D-NY), the 102 year-old congressman with terminal ass cancer.
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Here’s the thing about the democrats: pretty much every choice they make is aimed at securing the reelection of Greebus Durmutt (D-NY), the 102 year-old congressman with terminal ass cancer.
I do think it’s worth reiterating that every one of these emails post-dates Epstein's 2005 arrest for the raping a 14 year old girl
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I do think it’s worth reiterating that every one of these emails post-dates Epstein's 2005 arrest for the raping a 14 year old girl
It’s gonna be funny when we learn that democrats slow rolled the release of the Epstein files because they thought it might hurt the reelection chances of Greebus Durmutt (D-NY), the 102 year-old congressman with terminal ass cancer.
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
It’s gonna be funny when we learn that democrats slow rolled the release of the Epstein files because they thought it might hurt the reelection chances of Greebus Durmutt (D-NY), the 102 year-old congressman with terminal ass cancer.
Something I’ve been thinking about is how there is kind of a divide in education between making knowing things seem easy, and making knowing things seem hard, and that we probably don’t value the second one as much as we should.
November 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Something I’ve been thinking about is how there is kind of a divide in education between making knowing things seem easy, and making knowing things seem hard, and that we probably don’t value the second one as much as we should.
Something I find interesting is how film/tv/commercials still use the Volvo 240 as the stock “used car for teens.” They stopped making those 33 years ago! Why are you driving that!
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Something I find interesting is how film/tv/commercials still use the Volvo 240 as the stock “used car for teens.” They stopped making those 33 years ago! Why are you driving that!
I think I had the least interesting dream of my life last night.
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I think I had the least interesting dream of my life last night.
bobby fijan please help my family is dying
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
bobby fijan please help my family is dying
Incidentally, one of the greatest collections dwarf conifers in the horticultural trade were introduced by Sidney Waxman, a professor at UConn who used to drive around New England shooting witches brooms off trees with a .22 rifle.
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Incidentally, one of the greatest collections dwarf conifers in the horticultural trade were introduced by Sidney Waxman, a professor at UConn who used to drive around New England shooting witches brooms off trees with a .22 rifle.
I was flipping through this book the other day, and while it’s awesome, it also felt in a weird way like a missed opportunity—so for no reason at all here’s a (probably long) thread on plant morphology:
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I was flipping through this book the other day, and while it’s awesome, it also felt in a weird way like a missed opportunity—so for no reason at all here’s a (probably long) thread on plant morphology:
my most profound condolences to zohran kwame mamdani on becoming mayor of new york city: the job where everyone gets mad at you until you go insane
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
my most profound condolences to zohran kwame mamdani on becoming mayor of new york city: the job where everyone gets mad at you until you go insane